Fun With A Ball

Emily seriously loves the pink princess ball we have.  

She loves to sit on it.

 

Roll it.

Grab it.

 

And hug it.

Gotta love how much fun a ball can be.

13.5 Months

Emily Grace has changed so much in the past few months that it's getting harder to keep up with her now.  Just when I think I have it all figured out, she goes and does something new. 

She is walking more and more and with great confidence.  I love that she walks with her hands up by her chest, trying to keep her balance.  It's cute stuff.

This is also a fun new thing that she does.  I'm not entirely sure how she came up with it, but she does it a lot.

She also has quite a bit more hair these days.  It's starting to get in her eyes, so we keep trying to put it up, but it never lasts and then her hair is stuck looking like this.  What a rock star!

Emily loves to read.  Most days you will find her by the book box with books everywhere around her.  There are a few books that she wants to read over and over again (and mommy and daddy already have them memorized :))  Her love of books probably explains why she already has a crazy amount of words in her vocabulary.  It amazes me the things she says each day.  Besides learning new words, she already knows a few animal sounds and a few body parts.  She's even working on her good manners with "peeeas" and "xcue me".

Her favorite game is peek-a-boo.  She will play it anywhere and with anyone.  Whether she's covering her own eyes or just peeking out from around the corner, it makes her smile every time.

 No matter how much she changes, Emily Grace is nothing short of fabulous!

Things On Thursday

The past few weeks have been a little crazy, so here are a few things we've been up to.

Haley and Emily had an impromptu picnic one afternoon with the plastic fruits and veggies.

Haley loves using the mixing bowls as hats.  Pretty stylish I think.

Zach would be pretty proud of me for posting this since I usually rag on him a little about his nerdiness for a few things.  We had a brown out one morning and our power was pretty weak.  So he got out his "tell me how much power we have" machine and we only had half of what we normally do.  He was so excited that he took a picture and I'm happy to show it off :)

We haven't had the safest of weeks here. 

I burned my wrist on the oven one day.  Awful.

Then Haley had a minor face-plant into the coffee table.  There was blood, lots of tears, a few cuts, and a fat lip.  But as most kids do, she bounced back pretty quickly and was back to her wild ways.

Haley had her first day of preschool and Emily had her first day of Mommy and Me last week.  So to celebrate, a few days before we went out and got some frozen yogurt.  A big hit with both girls!

And the day before school started, we had a big pancake breakfast.  I attempted to make Haley a butterfly and Emily a ladybug.  A so-so attempt, but we had a good morning celebrating our growing girls before school started.

Working Out

Haley recently discovered my weights on our back porch and has decided that she wanted to lift weights with daddy.

Ok daddy, let's work out.

Look how strong I am!

 And put them down.

PHEW!  That was hard work!

Time for the second rep!

Haley Lynn

Hard to believe my sweet little girl is going to be three in a little over a month.  She has changed so much since her 2nd birthday.  I know she will change a lot between all her birthdays, but in the last 11 months, she has gone from toddler to little girl.

She still loves cooking and baking with me.  You never know what she'll find to play with or what she'll do with it.    

Sometimes I wonder what she thinks about.  She has a few moments where she'll just sit and be really quiet.  It's rare, but it happens.

Haley still loves to read and that makes me happy.  She has started memorizing the words from some of her favorites and reads them to herself a lot. 

She's still got a great sense of humor.  Walking around with buckets on her head or saying something silly is a very common thing around here.  She's also more than happy to introduce herself to almost anyone- "Hi!  I'm Haley!" she'll say with lots of excitement.  

We've had a couple firsts in the past few weeks with Haley. 

She started taking a gymnastics class with a few of her friends.  She tells us she has "so much fun!". 

Haley also started preschool last week.  She was so excited about going back to school and seeing her friends.  I was a little nervous wondering how she would do with me leaving her, but she didn't even notice I was gone.  She is such a social butterfly.  At the end of the day, I practically had to drag her out of her classroom because "I stay here!!".  She loves school and I love that she loves it.

Haley is a free spirit.  She is emotional (like me).  She is loving and sweet.  She is so many wonderful things.  And she'll always be my baby girl (no matter how old she is).